Sprint plans to send hundreds of technology jobs overseas

Kansas City Star ^ | 8/7/03 | Suzanne King

[Mamzelle]

re: My fear is that the future economy will depend on imported technology. Domestically, what we'll be producung is lawsuits, insurance policies to mitigate the effects of those lawsuits, and fried burgers and tacos. )))

You're right that we'll never need to outsource our lawyering, but even some insurance is being outsourced. Though, with the way we abuse our insurance, it's becoming both unaffordable or completely unavailable.

Suppose we suggest to our leaders that we outsource our soldiering? Bush could hire HB1 imports to take the bullets in Iraq, since an American soldier won't have a claim on an American job when he gets back from Baghdad...

[banjo joe]

"What are Americans going to do? What do you tell a young kid to study?"

Good question. Let's see... SuperCuts, or WalMart.
Select one.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Yes of course Pelosi, Gephardt and Graham are unclean and Liberal.

Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo are clean and Conservative.

[VadeRetro]

SuperCuts, or WalMart. Select one.

Kentucky Fried Chicken!

[banjo joe]

Tell him to go into the trades, or medicine, or teaching Everything else is outsourced, and these arent outsourced yet

Wrong. Anything where personal contact is not required is being "offshored". Radiology. You don't know who is reading your x-ray, nor where they are.

[banjo joe]

We also have this...
If you have a job in your field, the companies realize they can demand anything of you... anything... on the thin promise your job is still here...
... for now.

[N3WBI3]

Actually at that point they no longer tried to get me to stay..

[Sabertooth]

We develop industries and technologies here, and then cannibalize them offshore. I struggle to grasp the benefit of this.

I'm no advocate of Fortress America, but here's my question for any Free Trade fetishists lurking about...

If it's a good idea to have a diverse stock portfolio, why isn't it a good idea to have a diverse economy?

[1rudeboy]

I'm no advocate of Fortress America, but here's my question for any Free Trade fetishists lurking about...
If it's a good idea to have a diverse stock portfolio, why isn't it a good idea to have a diverse economy?

Let me answer your question with a question. Do you trust the Federal government to determine how diverse the economy should be?

[null and void]

Welcome back!!!

[VadeRetro]

The jobs that are disappearing are middle-class, 40-80K jobs. The jobs that are staying are $8/hour. Standards of living are dropping now. How will the economy keep on truckin' when we all have the disposable income of a Pizza Hut waitress?

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

The illegals are taking the $8/hr jobs. We cannot compete with them, because an employer must pay taxes out of our wages.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

Do you trust the WTO over our own supposedly representative government?

[riri]

How will the economy keep on truckin' when we all have the disposable income of a Pizza Hut waitress?

But in time the service jobs will dry up also. Without the disposable income there will no longer be a SuperCuts on every corner or a Subway. Those things will become luxuries.

I think of when I was a kid--we ate out once a week and I didn't get my first haircut at a salon type place until I was 10 or 11.

[Sabertooth]

Let me answer your question with a question. Do you trust the Federal government to determine how diverse the economy should be?

Aren't they doing that now? Don't all of the taxes and regulations help put American workers at an expensive disadvantage against foreign workers? Aren't these, in effect, restrictions of trade?

Scrap the income tax, and fund the legitimate functions of government with tariffs on foreign goods. Let that be the boulder around which trade otherwise flows freely.

[1rudeboy]

I fail to see how the WTO is implicated in this issue, other than allowing fellows like harpseal to rail about Harley-Davidson in China, while opposing the organization that can resolve the problem in the first place.

[VadeRetro]

Salvation Army Bean Soup

1 cup navy beans
Water
1/2 cup chopped onions
1/2 cup chopped celery
Salt and pepper
Bay leaf
Ham bone (if available)

Soak beans in water, overnight, and drain. Add ham bone and water to cover. Heat to a boil. Cover and simmer for three hours. Add onions, celery, and bay leaf, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook for another hour, covered. Remove bone and bay leaf before serving.

Serves 6

[riri]

Stop! You're scaring me! LOL

[1rudeboy]

Trust me, I am no fan of excessive government regulation, including regulation that attempts to choose winners and losers.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"During major league baseball's recent inter-league play, you would have known that something was fishy if National League umpires routinely made calls favoring NL teams and American League umpires called all the close ones for the AL teams.
That's basically what's been happening in the international trade arena, where the World Trade Organization routinely closes its eyes to violations of U.S. trade law by our "friends" around the globe, while threatening the United States with sanctions for upholding those laws."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/957418/posts

Offshoring/Outsourcing, H1B visas, L1 visas, illegals, and an unfair and imbalanced trade resulting in an enormous Trade Deficit are all hurting America's economy.
The U.S. Constitution granted power to Congress to "regulate commerce". Our government should be looking out for its citizens' interests, and not just the few who give large campaign donations.